adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a silent film (= made in the time before films had sound )
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a star of silent films
a silent prayer
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He said a silent prayer as he walked.
remained silent
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The boy remained silent .
silent majority
silent partner
silent/candle-lit vigil
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2,000 demonstrators held a candle-lit vigil outside the embassy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
strangely
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Benjamin and Agrippa had fallen strangely silent .
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The press has been strangely silent about this event, which is vouched for by professional meteoriticists.
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The Kop was strangely silent , watching impassively as several clear chances came and went.
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The headlines seem to cry out for better laws, but most citizens remain strangely silent .
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As he disappeared, the great chamber fell strangely silent .
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Newham council has kept strangely silent about that.
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Fred had remained strangely silent all through the parting.
■ NOUN
film
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But it was used earlier still in silent films , for telephone conversations.
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The Hollywood connection goes back even further, in fact, to the early days of silent film .
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Pioneering producer Hal Roach also launched a host of other silent film stars including Harold Lloyd.
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Griffith and Mack Sennett both filmed in the area while silent film star Tom Mix was an early developer.
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At sixteen I discovered an old man who exhibited silent films in villages.
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Callista Card is an expert in silent films .
majority
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That will not, by definition, come from the silent majority .
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This, therefore, is not the business of the silent majority which you have presented as your target.
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This turned him into a hero of the silent majority .
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It contains an inherent fallacy: you are expecting the silent majority to speak.
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For the silent majority will always be silent.
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The silent majority had begun to stand up.
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Highly-educated women were able to find a place within society: the silent majority remained silent.
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Following the statement, the silent majority returned to silence.
man
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The ticket he was presented that morning by the silent man in the medium-grey gabardine raincoat was just another ticket.
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The culprits, he says, were two silent men dressed in black.
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But, of course, he was and is a fairly silent man .
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He was a cipher to me, a silent man of abstracted benevolence, and I never got to know him well.
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Then the silent man simply walked out of the room, with a nod and a smile.
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The last is Tydeus, a silent man .
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Half a dozen silent men and women sat around smoking: old tins served as ashtrays.
movie
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But, given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies , maybe he wasn't joking at all.
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He accused me of histrionics and dubbed me Sarah Bernhardt, after the crown princess of stage and silent movie melodrama.
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It didn't deter many of Hollywood's young stars in those days of silent movies from using drugs.
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Eventually, he coerces several of them onstage to shoot a silent movie , somehow selecting precisely the right individuals.
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He would fit more naturally into an old silent movie than he would have done on Tiswas.
partner
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Presuppositions are the silent partners in thought, but their silence must not be mistaken for their absence.
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He has a silent partner and some name-brand advertisers.
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He wants to know were you my silent partner .
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Whenever a dad plays, there is usually a mom playing, who may not realize she is a silent partner .
prayer
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For an hour the two women sat in silent prayer , nervously scanning the other customers.
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As taps played across the land, Oliver Stone must have bowed his head in silent prayer .
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His lips moved in silent prayer .
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He paused for a moment, his head bowed in silent prayer .
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Half an hour - at least: songs, prayers , loud prayers, silent prayers.
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Half of his mind was saying silent prayers .
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She lit a candle over there as a silent prayer for her estranged husband and went home.
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Miles offered up a silent prayer as he walked.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the silent majority
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alice was laughing and joking, but her sister remained silent .
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Apart from the humming of the bees, all was silent and still.
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I wanted to say 'please don't go', but instead I remained silent , and she left.
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Mrs. Welland was a mild silent woman with no strong opinions.
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Phil was silent for a moment as he thought about his reply.
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Police responded to a silent alarm at the bank's Hope Street branch.
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The "b" at the end of "thumb" is silent .
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The children remained silent and watchful as the police questioned their parents.
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The crowd fell silent as he stood up to speak.
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The engine is almost silent , even at high speed, and goes like a dream.
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The hours before the attack were strangely silent .
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The streets of the city were silent in the moonlight.
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The woman fell silent , though she kept darting angry glances at Jessica.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All that remains of Champa today are its magnificent stone sculptures, silent testimony to an extinct society.
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At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared.
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He looked back at the father, who was furious but silent .
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Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news.
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Several people volunteered for being special constables but Tom remained silent .
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The reporter sighed, was silent for a bit, and then told me the following story.
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Then she recalled his reactions to what he'd labelled her prejudices in St Lucia, and stayed silent .